Taste the Nation: From carpentry to mixology for man behind flavours of Ballyhoura
Maurice Gilbert with a selection of apple products. Picture: Ballyhoura Apple Farm
When Maurice Gilbert set up Ballyhoura Apple Farm (ballyhouraapplefarm.com) in Churchtown, Co Cork with Gerry Murphy in 2004, he never expected what was to come - from discovering a flair for finding flavours to uprooting a 4,500 tree orchard to move it over the border to Co Limerick.
Gilbert, who has seen his career path change from carpenter to CEO and chief mixologist, says they saw a gap in the market when they first started selling their product at a farmers market.
